Tag Archives: managing money

Top 5 Money-Saving Tips Anyone Can Handle

Welcome to this week’s edition of our Tuesday Top 5, Econ4U’s weekly tips post to help you manage your money in five easy steps. There are a million articles on how to save more money, but how many of them contain advice you can actually use? We distilled the best advice we’ve ever gotten into five [...]

Personal-Finance Tips for the Non-Braindead

Being a personal-finance aficionado, I always click on those articles that promise to help cut the fat from your budget. Most recently, I was intrigued by the idea of RealSimple.com’s “24 Hours of Savings” article for finding ways to trim your spending throughout the day. However, it’s disappointing that the bulk of the advice seems [...]

Top 5 Ways to Save Money on an Apartment

Welcome to this week’s edition of our Tuesday Top 5, Econ4U’s weekly tips post to help you manage your money in five easy steps. At the beginning of the summer, we brought you our tips on finding your first apartment. Now it’s time to make your space your own. Read on for our advice for doing [...]

Top 5 Ways to Find Your First Apartment

Welcome to this week’s edition of our Tuesday Top 5, Econ4U’s weekly tips post to help you manage your money in five easy steps. Maybe you’ve just graduated and need to find a new place to live, or perhaps it’s time to say adios to your roommates and get a place of your own. Moving can [...]

Financial Advice From the President Himself

This week was the first Personal Finance Online Summit, held on Wednesday to give personal-finance experts the opportunity to discuss with the president the major financial issues affecting both the country at large and individual households on a smaller scale. At the end, President Obama shared the tenets he says he personally lives by. Here it [...]

It’s Not What You Earn, It’s What You Keep

If you caught our new billboard in New York this week or are just new to Econ4U, we have some great resources to help you make a budget — whether it’s your first or your twenty-first. Here’s a crash course in parsing your paycheck and making the most of what you earn: It won’t take [...]

Famous Financial Flubs: The Osbournes

As you undoubtedly already know, the deadline for filing your 2010 taxes was yesterday. But if you’re reality-television rockers Ozzy and Sharon Osbourne, it was also a good day to pay taxes for 2008 and 2009. Better late than never! On April 4, the IRS put liens on the Osbournes’ two Los Angeles-area mansions to [...]

Which Industries Are the Most Profitable?

Ever wonder which industries are the most profitable? The answers may surprise you. No shock here — finance is far and away the winner, with closed-end equity funds reporting a profit margin of 81%. That means that for every dollar an equity firm earns in revenue, it spends only 19 cents on the costs of [...]

Famous Financial Flubs: Val Kilmer

Val Kilmer may have played Iceman in Top Gun, but he’s not about to outmaneuver the taxman for the second time. In April 2010, Kilmer settled a $538,858 tax debt with the IRS. But that wasn’t all he owed to the feds, because in November, the IRS filed a new lien — worth $498,165 — [...]

Tuesday Top 5: Money-Wasting Habits to Break

Welcome to this week’s edition of our Tuesday Top 5, Econ4U’s weekly tips post to help you manage your money in five easy steps. Are you still sticking to your New Year’s resolutions? Good for you! You’ll hit your financial goals for 2011 even faster if you break these five common money-wasting habits. Fully fund an [...]

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